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When one telephones someone else, one never gives a
second thought to the linguistic and etymological processes
illustrated by the word telephone. To begin with,
the noun telephone is one of a class of technological
and scientific words that are made up of combining forms, in
this case tele- and -phone. These forms are
derived from classical languages: tele- is from the Greek
combining form tele- or tel-, a form of tele,
meaning "afar, far off," while -phone is from Greek phone,
"sound, voice." Such words derived from classical languages
can be put together in French or German, for example, as
well as in English. Which language actually gave birth to
them cannot always be determined. In this case French telephone
(about 1830) seems to have priority. The word was used for
an acoustic apparatus, as it originally was in English (1844).
Alexander Graham Bell appropriated the word for his invention in
1876, and in 1877 we have the first instance of the verb
telephone meaning "to speak to by telephone." The verb
is an example of a linguistic process called functional shift.
This occurs when we use a noun as a verb, an adjective as a
noun, or a noun as an adjective. Thus, we are changing the
syntactic function of the word, just as we do when we
telephone a friend.

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